Saturday, October 28, 2006
Meijer, who is a retailer in Michigan, announces that it will provide free prescriptions for nearly seven common antibiotics. A hospital is giving free preventive care for the sake of people with chronic diseases with no insurance in Texas. Or evidence of a broadening realization in our culture that bad health-care policy costs everybody. Meijer's decision to go with some free drugs can be seen simply in the context of competing together with rivals Wal-Mart and Kmart, which have adopted their own cheaper drug enticements only to consumers.
All three firms must figure out that if you can draw folks in with drug prices, they'll stop and buy something else along the way. But these retailers' decisions also make it more likely that struggling Americans will get hold of the needed drugs, which, in turn, should make them healthier too. As per the report published in the New York Times, the Seton Family of Hospitals in Austin struggled to cover the costs of chronically sick patients who had no health insurance policies. Moreover, the hospital group enrolled her in a free preventive care program to help her manage her condition - and keep her out of the emergency room rather than continue to hound the woman for money she did not have. The hospital expects to save lots of money on the back end by helping the diabetic woman with free care up-front.
posted by renaa
@ 6:08 PM
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